May 18, 2012

Video found after a search for "making women nod" — which I knew was a longstanding Bill Maher theme — which I got the idea to do after writing about Barack Obama saying 51 times in "Dreams From My Father" that people "nodded". It was probably a meaningless writerly tic from a neophyte writer, but perhaps it's significant. Whatever you think of Maher, listen to the montage about the emasculation of men as manifested in the behavior of making women nod. Then think about the agenda of the Democratic Party, their asserted pacifist position in the so-called War on Women, their mascot "Julia," and things of that sort.

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The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers is a must read for any parent w/ a boy who is in grade school. I wish I had read it when my son was in school. When I taught school I did a lot of substituting. In high school there's a decent mix of men/women teachers. Middle School a few men but not enough. Grade school, virtually no men. Just normal boy boys, who would hopefully grow up to be a man's man, are under assault. The stats show feminism has helped girls do better and more now go to college. Sadly, over the corpses of boys. It's a travesty. We see the results of male dominated organizations[Secret Service, Catholic Church] and it's ugly. I submit US public schools are no less ugly. We need balance in all aspects of life.

Salamandyr, Please qualify "we men". My bride and I love each other very much. However, being an uber introvert I HATE the phone. And, my bride understand I won't call to chat. Just like I understand she doesn't like other things I may like. The understanding didn't come quickly, it took time.

Granted, not everyone calls their wife to say "I'll be home in five minutes" or "Yeah, we're just taxining on the runway now" (the example used by Maher). But those of us who do aren't doing it for the reasons stated by him, namely that we're "pussies" or "whipped". We're doing it because, dammit, we like our wives and wanna share things with them, or maybe we're just counting the minutes until we can be with them again.

Maher speaks like someone who has never been in love so he he supposes the emotion doesn't actually exist.

Salamander, A husband calling his wife to chat or update her because he likes her Is a wonderful thing to hear a man say. And Spinelli, your wife understanding your phone issues is equally heartwarming. A good marriage is with the couple really LIKING each other is what makes it all worthwhile, besides child rearing.

DADvocate, he's not a male, he's whiny little progressive who puts everyone off marriage. Were you liking his devilishly dead-on contempt for women when he was trashing Palin and Bachmann? Maybe look at this in terms of whiny little progressives v. the rest of us instead of female v. male. Works for me.

Maher IS a whiny little progressive, but he is also right on the "women are more evolved in all matters, at all times" topic. Anyone who knows more than 12 people is aware that there are sensitive men and loutish women out there.

When I grew up, the women used to hang out together during the day, raise the kids, gossip, and all that business. Now if they are stay at home, they are pretty well isolated. The reason women are pestering men with their hormonal probles is that they don't have the social support system anymore.

I finally got to watch it - LOL! He's right. But it is really a rather pathetic situation, that men would do anything. Is it to get laid like the other guy said? that's even worse. I thought you all could handle that yourselves as necessary. It's got to be more about money..jobs, position etc.

Something is terribly wrong. But then feminist in me says this is just MORE condescension!

I'm a guy who pretty much tells it like it is, without regard to how any gender (or political party member) may "feel" about hearing the truth, and I've been repeatedly dissed for the name of my blog, repeatedly called a misogynist, repeatedly attacked as crazy and/or bigoted, and faced multiple attempts (by men and women alike) to make me ashamed of being who and what I am:

A strong charismatic male in a NewAge world.

I'm told I should be humble, show humility, accept what others know is really my fear (Hi, Meade!) and look for a good woman who'll fix me right up, because - obviously - being a strong charismatic male in this beat-men-down-and-demoraliuze-them-if-they-don't-meet-our-master's-standards environment is a pathology that can only be solved by having a woman around to "help."

Yeah, help ignore, or deny, or even destroy reality, all so she and her girl/gay/metrosexual friends can feel better about themselves in my presence.

Sorry kids, but your identity issues are your problem, and any attempt to make them mine will be met by this stern warning delivered like a foot in your ass:

After saying feminine values are now the values of America, Maher continues by saying, "Sensitivity is more important than truth, feeling are more important than facts,..."

And you guys wonder what's wrong with this country? Look there. And you think a guy like Mitt - with his hidden love for the con man's "religion" - is going to save you now? Do any of you really understand this issue, as outlined here, or don't you?

The only group Maher gives credit to are "steely-eyed realists," and that ain't Mitt Romney.

There was a time in the '90s when it became unfashionable by people on the left to call themselves "liberal", because they felt the term had been demonized by the right. That's why you see so many people calling themselves "progressives".

Mahar drifted to "libertarian" because they were socially liberal and would let him do drugs. But he ignored the whole minimal-government economic side, which most libertarians consider an integral part of liberty.

Personally I wish leftists would stop describing themselves as "liberals". They're not liberals as the word is traditionally defined or as it is still defined in other English speaking countries.

My boss's instructions, after this or that complaint by somebody to the authorities, "Well, don't talk to women."

Welcome to the law of unintended consequences. All those years of diversity training have drilled one thing into men (especially white men): While at work don't associate with women any more than you have to.

The male of the species is smarter than the female. His brain is bigger. His left brain is more developed. There's a reason there's no female Shakespeare or Einstein or Beethoven or da Vinci. Feminists tell us it's because women through the ages have been oppressed and denied education and opportunity, but that's just avoidance of the realities. Men are brainier and more prone to genius.

That's okay, though. We females are plenty smart enough and we have other, shall we say, advantages.

If Maher would just pay the agreed price and maybe tip a little extra, most of his problems with women would be over.......Men have historically mistreated women, but one must admit that if women had been treated fairly prior to relatively recent times, the human race would have died out.

misandry is rampant in our culture. watching five minutes of tv advertising will tell you all you need to know about that: men are useless, dumbass, overgrown children who must constantly be looked after by a superior-in-all-ways woman.meanwhile, there are many guys who have given in to societal expectations and are too willing to accept the role of the hapless dope. a co-worker of mine once explained his plan to me, now that he had a good job and a house, to 'get' a wife. he didn't happen to meet someone special who changed his life nor had he made a good friend with whom he fell in love so they decided to live together or anything like that. he just put it out there to his friends and family that he was 'ready' and they fell all over themselves to hook him up and chain him down. they pretty much lined them up and he picked one. now he makes all the moves that maher refers to in this clip. maybe he's happy...i dunno...but he appears to be more defeated than joyous and i see a lot of other guys just like him. they aren't so much in a relationship as they just 'have' a wife to point to for acceptance by the group. he can joke with the other guys who are in his same situation about how 'the wife' is driving them insane...but it's no joke.

Maher makes insightful and hilarious points, but the irony is that the conservative women that he hates so passionately are probably the ones that would play the fewest games, and "let the man be a man."

So there's a deeper pathology going on here, and it's with the deeply unlikeable, physically repulsive Mr. Maher.

Leave it to Maher to bemoan the fact that American society doesn't have enough narcissistic individualism. But you could compare and contrast ethnic groups for some insight. Many black American males resemble the mustangs he so admires. On the other hand Asian Americans have the lowest divorce rates and rate of single parenting in the US. They must be a good example of the pussy whipped men he is talking about. How is that working out for these respective groups of people and their children?

DADvocate: And, of course, you get snotty responses like Amartel's which show how we got to this place. How dare a male complain!!

Complaints about someone's insensitivity to your opinions/feelings/group don't really work all that well in the context of this thread.

So she thinks Maher is a whiny little bitch. So what? Can't you think of a more manly, forthright way to express your opinion of her opinion than "how dare you not vailidate my feelings!" What the hell do you want, a "safe space"?

el polacko: mis-leuco-andry is rampant in our culture. watching five minutes of tv advertising will tell you all you need to know about that: white men are useless, dumbass, overgrown children who must constantly be looked after by a superior-in-all-ways woman and wise saintly "minorities".

Men who are actually attractive to women (unlike Salamander, who was merely selected by a woman to be her provider in return for very little), usually say very few words to women, and never about appeasing small-talk.

Every single human society would promptly send 50% of men to die gruesome deaths on the battlefield before any woman's life was placed at risk. This made sense, since the number of women determined the number of babies, and the few surviving men were all that were needed.

But men died in battlefields, in shipwrecks, and in mines, while women tended to children and the kitchen. Wanna trade?

No, women were not systematically oppressed.

Feminists never give a straight answer on the 'wanna trade?' test, proving this point.